DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Just in case you wondered whether Tony Stewart actually did a split in his popular Mobil 1/soda cookies commercial, he didn’t.

Stewart had a male gymnast do his stretching for him. Stewart made that admission when asked about the commercial Friday at Daytona International Speedway.

In the commercial, which also stars Formula One star Jensen Button, Stewart is shown stretching on a carpet in his living room. With the help of Mobil 1 lubricants, he does a split while dunking cookies into a glass soda. Stewart calls the treat “soda cookies.”

“Let’s make no mistakes about it — if I got down there, I would still be down there,” Stewart said. “They did not ask me to do that. They had me get down on the ground for the camera shot but they had green screens (behind me).

“They had some male gymnast do it. I didn’t know who it was. I didn’t want to be there when he did it.”

Stewart said it was a great deal of fun shooting the commercial, which has gotten a lot of play and commentary on Twitter. He says he never reads scripts beforehand because he would never remember them.

“I get there and I’m starting to read the scripts, and it’s saying Tony is getting on an exercise bike, he’s doing splits and I’m like, ‘Which Tony is doing this, by the way? Is there another Tony,’” Stewart said.

Also for the record, Stewart couldn’t remember dunking cookies into soda.